keep an eye on john mccain. he has been sitting side by side with his good friend lindsey graham for much of this, and getting a lot of attention from republican leaders. if john mccain decides not to vote for this bill, this bill will not move forward. mccain was one of several senators to give a press conference today. he was one of the most outspoken people who said i don't want this bill to become law. but he was potentially willing to vote for it if he had assurances he was comfortable with. that speaker ryan would take to it conference, as you said, this kind of christmas tree that they could then dress back up. earlier in the night, he told reporters he wasn't satisfied by what he had heard from speaker ryan. and brian, he stopped talking about it. i ran into him in a hallway i don't know, an hour and a half ago, tried to ask him about it. would not say another word about his vote. all eyes in the chamber are on john mccain right now. >> all right. and as garrett spoke at around the 12:00 mark on your scr

that's who john mccain is. as much as he is a strident republican at times, the standard bearer of that party, he has been able and willing to reach across the aisle. sometimes physically. you are also reminded when john mccain makes a physical gesture like that of the inability, the limits physically on john mccain. he can't lift his arms over a certain level because of the 5 1/2 years he spent as a prisoner of war. that becomes part of the aura of john mccain. part of what you think about when you think about the man and see him in the well of the senate. he is not like the other 99 in one very critical way. it's why he held them in detention when he came back from the surgery 12 days after the surgery that later revealed he was dealing with a blastoma, a very, very serious malignant brain tumor. i put before the court of opinion this tweet by clair mccaskill of missouri. there is now a glimmer of hope. she tweets that we will stop this and hopefully start over in a bipartisan way to stabilize insurance marke

bush won, but certainly the fact that they were able to bring john mccain in were part of the reasons they were able to coalesce independent voters and go on to beat john kerry. there are numerous examples throughout the course of his career where he will challenge his republican colleagues. ewill stand up and say he isn't necessarily in favor of their course of action, that they need to right the ship. and a lot of times that does lead to them doing things a little bit differently. but at the end of the day, he is still a pretty reliable republican. he usually sides with republicans and sides with the team. 10 if he were to make a break like this, i think if you go back throughout his history, this would be perhaps his most important statement, the most important example of his ability to be a maverick, because this would actually be a physical vote that he was taking in opposition to his senate majority leader in opposition to his vice president, who has personally gone up on the senate floor tonight to try and plead with him to cast a vote in the affirmative. so john mccain has had

hillary clinton said john mccain is as tough as they come am thinking of john and cindy and their children and whole family. we should note that meghan mccain is not just part of the mccain family but also part of the fox news family. she put out an emotional statement. i will read it in part: my love for my father is boundless. like any daughter i don't want wish to be in a world without him. i have faith those days remain far away. my fears for him are overwhelmed by gratitude for our years together and the years still to come. he is a warrior. one of the greatest americans of our age. but to me he is something more. he is my strength, my example, my refuge, my teacher, my rock, my hero, my dad." that's from meghan mccain our colleague at fox news. the mccain family will figure out the way forward with the senator's treatment. there was talk in washington about when senator mccain would come back because of the health care debate. senator mcconnell said that's the furthest thing from their mind tonight. they are focussed on the family and they hope he has a good recovery in the days ahea

we have spoken to john mccain and lisa murckowski about the no vote. john said he felt it was simply the right thing to do. apparently he told senator schumer about this, and eventually sat on it until the vote came around. the democratic leader knew this would happen, as for lisa murckowski she has faced a lot of pressure in the last couple of days and told a member of our team, look, this was tough. it was hard to let down their colleagues. she and john mccain felt they were letting republicans down but had to do something they felt was the right thing to do. murckowski said look, we still want to get obamacare repealed and fixed but they knew it was not the right way to do it. a couple of senators taking a very tough vote tonight. and i'm sure they will feel the wrath of the white house as early as tomorrow morning if there are not more tweets. >> there are pictures on the left of john mccain walking out of the capital, is that happening now? that just happened a few moments ago that john mccain followed by a pack of reporters out there. so garrett,

we saw senator john mccain giving the decisive "no." a lot is being said about john mccain. how do you think this will go down within the republican party? how will president trump see this? >> i think it's spectacular. mccain really got the final finger. he finally was able to really get all the anger that he's had all these years. he's a very angry man. he's well known for that. he really stuck it to donald trump. and that's his pride and joy. apparently his last great wish in life. good luck with that. from the republican strategist side, all the democrats, including schumer and mccaskill tonight, going back to bill clinton, said it's a crazy system, it's not working, and it's failing and it's hurting the working class. being a perfectly political person on this, it's great news in 2018. because the risk of trying to do, trying to put a bandaid on the health care system and trying to make it worse a little bit. the democrats are blaming us and a lot of people thought trump created a new medical system that's failing, that's leaving counties and states, a lot of people with

john mccain at the top of the list. he and i have been friends for a very long time, ever since the gang of eight, which we put together. and i have not seen a senator who speaks truth to power as strongly, as well and is recalled as john mccain. the very same courage he showed as a naval aviator in vietnam. he showed last night and has shown time and time again. he is just a wonderful man. i treasure his friendship and just the fact of knowing him. i've known a few great man in the senate. i put dedicated in that category and danny in a way and i put john mccain in the category also. and certainly not to be forgotten of equal praise our susan collins and lisa murkowski. they were amazing. and women are in some instances stronger than men. they brag less about it but they are, last night sort of proof of that. and as somebody who is in a family of strong women, i very much appreciate their strength, their courage and their dedication to principles, despite the entreaties. so where do we go from here? well, john mccain s

i would hope in honor of john mccain we could do ndaa. i thought we could have worked out rand paul there on the issue. mccain, reid and i were talking to him. it will be up to leader mcconnell. reporter: is there a role democrats can play on tax reform undere it's going reconciliation? senator schumer: they're putting the same sign out, no democrats wanted, and they did with health care and i think will lead to the same result. ok. last one. reporter: what was your conversation with speaker ryan? ?the dialogue senator schumer: i've always gotten along with speaker ryan. he and i worked on a proposal to repatriate some money and put it into infrastructure. look, again, i think the four leaders left to their own devices along with their caucuses could get a lot done but there are outside forces that pull things apart. the president has not been helpful in bringing people together. again, i hope last night was a magic moment that changes all that. thank you, everybody. >>thank you. [chatter] >> john mccain explained his decision to vote agai

the bill did not pass. >> the failure of health care, i think a lot of people thought was coming, john mccain, dashed back risking his life to get to capitol hill. we go to our panel now. john, it did seem like after three days of debate, amongst the gop, there was suddenly this realization that a bill can be a law. and they panicked. and they were terrified that this bill that would take away health insurance and increase premiums by 20% could become the law of the land. >> here's bottom line. senator mccain betrayed the republican party. what he wanted was more discussion, and that's what this bill could have allowed. it could have allowed a bipartisan conversation in the house to go forward. and at the same time, less than a year ago when he was campaigning for reelection, in all of his ads he said vote for senator mccain, because he's leading the fight to repeal and replace obamacare, and tonight he killed the fight. >> no one stopped a bipartisan effort on obamacare except for mitch mcconnell. when barack obama first started the health care thing about seven years ago, barack obama went

on john mccain, i made that myself and i want to say hurrah to john mccain and all good wishes. i am a democrat and i basically respected the man. he served our country with honor and one trump dissed him, it was a slap in the face to every soldier who served this country with pride. he should take it back and mccainze unless tv to and all the wounded warriors who did their job with no second thought of their own safety. love to protect our country. that is all i have to say. colorado, kelly, independent. share your thoughts. john mccain is a vietnam that. he was an honorable man and he served. thereople who were continually got stomped and spit on. uniform, even wear his my father, when he came back from vietnam. country have this ignored the military from day one. dependence from the military you take a weapon no one and every thing about, i don't know, this has seemingly gone down the toilet. wise medical so high? half -- hospitals are in a profit business. you cannot go anywhere. where does it stop? host: ok. diagnosis, here is information about glioblastoma. it is the most

as they get more aggressive treatment, many times blues people with a fighting attitude like john mccain> reporter: from everyone at fox our thoughts and prayers go to the mccain family. shocking news to wake up to this morning. >> never would have appointed jeff sessions if he knew sessions would recuse himself from the russia investigation. the commander-in-chief's remarks revealed in an interview with the new york times. >> he should never have recused himself. if he was going to recuse himself he should've told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else. it is extremely unfair and that is a mild word, to the president. >> sessions recused himself in march following public scrutiny over his meeting with a russian ambassador during the campaign. the fate of the clinton email investigation remains unknown. in an exclusive interview with martha maccallum deputy attorney general rob rosenstein declining to say whether he would reopened that clinton email case. >> i won't comment about any of our investigations. every decision we make about whether to prosecute is base

john mccain is a fighter as mr. trump says he's also a fighter.tary you fight with honor. you have rules of engagement and decorum. the world war ii generation were part of what made bipartisanship work because they put country first, loyalty to country first not to party. and if we keep losing those people without some sort of national service without more military people going into congress, we've lost something very big. >> peter baker, we're reporting nothing final here tonight. you and i both know he will be back in the corridors of the senate during his treatment. he'll be back at work. god forbid he's been known to work with members of the other party. there is so much to say about john mccain, starting with as garrett was saying his wingman lindsey graham. they are part of a unit and they're a crucial part right now. people say they need john mccain of this kind of republican almost resistance in waiting. >> yeah, it's interesting. it comes at a pretty crucial time on a lot of different issues, health care being one. tomorrow president tru

great cheering on for john mccain tonight when he really needs it. >> yeah, and you know senator mccain is unlike anybody else in not -- not just in the senate but in american politics. he's unlike anybody else in american life in his public life and in his heroics in war. he's a singular figure in american life and american history, and i think for everybody who has ever had a political difference with him tonight, that just instantly evaporates in the face of wanting the best for him. >> and it's hard to think of him without thinking about what a ball of energy he is. >> yeah. >> i mean i remember when i was working in the senate, he just, you know, enters every room and went down every hallway at the highest speed possible and just, you know, was always that way. i think people saw that when he was running for president, that that's the way he handled everything. it's just that constant never let up attitude. >> yeah, and the whole straight talk thing, which he kind of turned into a slogan at one point in one of his presidential campaigns, you know, what that is is a symptom of someb

and i think at this point, that senator is probably john mccain. >> at this point, they're trying to twist arms. obviously, they don't have the votes. not a good sign. >> it's not. and senator mccain was pretty firm in his concerns about what he was hearing from mark meadows in the house. reached out to him and lindsey graham. and he said our plan in the house is to move this on ahead. and that's not what they want. they want to continue the conversation. and from what i'm hearing, paul line has been trying to reassure everyone they're going to slow down. they want to have more granting to the states. they want reassurance, this isn't just carte blanche to approve what they have on the table right now. they're not confident with what they're hearing. they're concerned that the house is going to move things along. and john mccain said it very eloquently when he spoke the other day. we need to have this conversation. he would have to have democrat buy in and have a bipartisan health care bill. and he certainly is in a position, now, to make his feelings noenl. and given that he's the ho

john mccain brought people on board for grass roots campaigning on wheels. >> i think it was john mccain in his element. >> reporter: a decade later the senator is still known for his straight talk and his will to keep fighting. >> it's a surreal process knowing you have to put up a fight you didn't expect to. >> reporter: robert knows something about the fight that's ahead for john mccain. >> we found my tumor in a small first or succeed inning of its development. >> reporter: it's the same time of john mccain's. when doctors discovered it, the 39-year-old knew what it was. >> i remember about joe biden's local delaware guy, i remember he lost a son this way. and i did know about it wu. i never thought i'd be one of those guys. >> they have been traveling. now planning a trip to germany. as his wife says, living. he continues his work as a financial adviser. >> i know i'm nine months into this. i still feel like me. i still feel strong. >> reporter: he's in a clin trial now and hoping a especially after high profile diagnosis for beau biden and republican john mccain more money will pou

john mccain is so widely respected up here. i would be remiss not to mention the politics of this which is john mccain was expected to be a fairly reliable vote on this bill. if he's not going to be back here anytime soon, that makes the paths to repeal and replace obamacare that much more difficult. >> thank you for staying late and reporting for us from there. with us by telephone now is our nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres. doc, glioblastoma, when you say that, too.families across the country and in our audience already know of it as they say, it's not something you want but what can you tell us about diagnosis and prognosis? >> and brian, it's the same thing when you say glioblastoma to a group of doctors they go oh, wow, because that is the most aggressive malignant brain cancer. it also has the lowest survival rate. typically with glioblastomas the average survival rate is around 14 months. given his age, he's right in that group where they tend to survive 14 months to two years. this is a bad type of tumor

how is senator john mccain? >> well, his family is saying tonight that they are weighing their options to deal with what is a very aggressive form of brain cancer. this is something that they aree dealing with because a few days ago we learned that john mccaina had a blood clot and there was a mass they were checking on. it was cancer. they are weighing whether to move forward with chemotherapy or radiation. tonight there are leaders in both parties who are saying this is an american hero, that they want to rally around as he deals with this fight. former president barack obama said john mccain is an american hero and one of the bravest fighters i have ever known.. cancer doesn't know what it is up against. give it hell." that from barack obama. hillary clinton said john mccain is as tough as they come am thinking of john and cindy and their children and whole family. we should note that meghan mccain is not just part of the mccain family but also part of the fox news family. she put out an emotional statement.

john mccain is someone i would have dinner with seven nights a week. always interesting. . god, i hope he gets well. >> to that point, john, i think about people working in the senate today and especially the young people working in the senate today who will do two or three years, some of them less. but it will be the memory of their lives. one of the things they talk about whoever is who was serving in the senate when they worked there. every one of them is going to say john mccain at the top of their list. >> lawrence, you had it exactly right at the beginning of the show when you talked about this man having the energy of a 25-year-old and the enthusiasm of a 25-year-old. president obama sent out a greet tweet tonight where he said, cancer doesn't know what it's up against. and i hope that's right. >> thank you both for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, a neurosurgeon will join us with a brief explanation about senator john mccain's condition tonight. and later, congressman barney frank is here with his assessment of where the

president trump tweeting about john mccain. it is so great that he's coming back to vote. ave american hero. thank you, john. we will see how that boat goes just moments from now. let us first go to peter doocy. he joins me and i don't live on capitol hill with the very latest. peter, how much of an impact did the vice president visit heaven today? >> as lunch with the vice president and skeptical senators started to wind down, where it started trickling out from the dining room that some of those who had been noncommittal on this health care bill to fix obamacare are now going to vote to proceed to debate. that does not mean they will back the final bill, because no one knows with the final bill will look like, but we are getting a lot of debts from senators like dean heller. if the final product is improved for the state of nevada, then i will support it. shelley moore capito who was an unknown, i will vote to begin the debate to repeal and replace obamacare. i will make decisions that are in the best interest of west virginia. the bill that they will proceed on today is

just a terrific american. >> john mccain has really been vintage john mccain in recent weeks. he's been the maverick once again. willing to buck his own party indeed. >> get well son. >>> new details about the meeting with donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. live from moscow, next. only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. medicare doesn't cover everything. and like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, these help cover some of what medicare doesn't pay. so don't wait. call now to request your free decision guide. it could help you find the aarp medicare supplement plan that works for you. these types of plans have no networks, so you get to choose any doctor who accepts medicare pa

john mccain was john mccain. he cares about the united states' senate as an institution more man his party. pure and simple. this wasn't about saving obamacare in his mind either. everybody is trying to say john mccain has picked sides, he's with the democrats. no john mccain is an institutionalist. pure and simple. he's not been happy how the senate has been run over the last decade. he's made that known multiple times. it might be a snarky aside at a press conference or sometimes directly and bluntly. he gave mcconnell some benefit of the doubt by saying, look, i'll give you your vote to get this bill on the floor. but he made it clear he likely -- that was all he was going to give him. and so there you have it. that's what he did. this was about john mccain, senate institutionalist. >> and, chuck, i can't leave you without talking about the disarray, i don't even know what to call it. >> i've run out of adjectives, too. >> scaramucci. i don't know how long reince priebus is for the white house, but how does an

in the last hours with senator mccain and in his words, he was resolved and determined at that john mccain said "i've been through worse." we got a heartfelt and emotional statement from our fox news colleague meghan mccain. >> the news has affected everyone in the family. we have all endured the shock of the news and we live with the anxiety about what comes next. it is an experience familiar to us given my father's previous battle with cancer, it is familiar to the countless american families whose loved ones are also stricken with the tragedy of disease and the inevitability of age. if we could ask anything of anyone now it would be the prayers of those of you who would understand this all too well. we would be so grateful for that." it won't surprise you to learn that meghan mccain says the one who was most confident and calm as my father. "he is the toughest person i know. the cruelest enemy could not break him. the aggressions of political life could not bend him. he is meeting this challenge as he has every other. cancer may afflict him in many ways, but it will not make him surrend

in the last hours with senator mccain and in his words, he was resolved and determined at that john mccain said "i've been through worse." we got a heartfelt and emotional statement from our fox news colleague meghan mccain. >> the news has affected everyone in the family. we have all endured the shock of the news and we live with the anxiety about what comes next. it is an experience familiar to us given my father's previous battle with cancer, it is familiar to the countless american families whose loved ones are also stricken with the tragedy of disease and the inevitability of age. if we could ask anything of anyone now it would be the prayers of those of you who would understand this all too well. we would be so grateful for that." it won't surprise you to learn that meghan mccain says the one who was most confident and calm as my father. "he is the toughest person i know. the cruelest enemy could not break him. the aggressions of political life could not bend him. he is meeting this challenge as he has every other. cancer may afflict him in many ways, but it will not make him surrend

if john mccain is going to live by the principles that he advocated today, on the senate floor. to return to regular order. senator mccain received a standing ovation when he arrived on the senate floor today after announcing last week he has been diagnosed with brain cancer. if john mccain joins republican opponents of the bill, susan collins, lisa murkowski and others, then the trump, ryan mcconnell health care attempt to repeal the affordable care act will be defeated on the senate floor. and mitch mcconnell will then give up on health care mejs lags and put the senate in recess. mitch mcconnell might already know tonight that he does not have the votes to pass any form of health care legislation on the senate and he simply needs to go through these motions publicly. in order to justify sending the senate into recess and once the senate is in recess, the president of the united states might then repeal and replace attorney general jeff sessions with the recess appointment of a new attorney general who would be allowed to serve without being confirmed by the senate for the rest

john mccain cast the decisive vote to make it 50/50, john mccain was not going to move this time ande pence, there was no tie to break. that killed the bill right there. todd: you heard people talk about this wasn't a real bill, this didn't matter, just something to throw out there but the reaction from senators like ted cruz and mitch mcconnell, a different message from that. >> reporter: ted cruz ran for president talking about repealing obamacare, he was one of the main architects in 2015, the principal issue in the political life in washington dc, the press conference this evening, might have been the first presidential campaign event. bills have to fail before they pass. i could see a situation where republicans got to work this out. heather: there are accusations mitch mcconnell knew this would fail but even very emotional last evening. and something he wanted to move forward to conference. >> mitch mcconnell tried several other bills, mitch mcconnell, senior senate aid, kind of like wesley snipes, passenger 57, known for having a good inside game. when it came to passing somet

it's john mccain. i think it's no secret that mccain and trump have not exactly been allies, going back a couple years now. susan collins of maine was another severe critic of trump. so he hasn't repaired relationships. when you have such a tiny margin in the senate, every senator matters. he has not repaired the relationships with the senators he actually needs to pass his agenda. >> all right. so let's talk about how this dynamic plays out from here. you referred earlier to when mccain did that, you did hear a little bit of pleasant surprise. those were the democrats, but their leader, schumer, did put a cap on it somewhat uncharacteristically. why? because they've got proshs with the aca and need to figure out a way forward. let's hear to chuck schumer last night about what happened and m what it means. >> let's turn the page in another way. all of us were so inspired by the speech and the life of the senator from arizona. he asked us to go back to regular order, to bring back the senate that some o

senator john mccain recovering from a surgery for a blood clot at home in arizona. >> we hope john mccain gets better very soon because we miss him. he's a crusty voice in washington, plus we need his vote. >> reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell postponed action until mccain's return, needing every republican vote he can get. back at the white house, the "made in america" theme shining new light on how much of the trump brand is made outside the usa. sean spicer brushing aside questions on whether the president and his daughter should stop making their products overseas. >> in some circumstances, there are a certain supply chain that may not be available in this country. i'm not going to comment on specific products. >> reporter: so, wolf, this very unusual display at the bhwhite house had more trappings of a county fair with the fire truck and tractor at the white house, but it shows how the administration is trying to turn the page on the investigation. we're told the white house will have dinner with republican senators over health care, something he has not talked about i

i have as much respect for john mccain as the next person.hink it is ironic he's returning from a surgery that virtually no american could afford without health insurance to deny 15 million americans health insurance we have to step back and ask, what is heroic here? the heroic thing to do would be to stand up and say. look, i was the beneficiary of insurance. many americans cannot afford this insurance. >> you talk about many americans who would not be insured. it's the conclusion that was reached by the cbo. i'm curious, jonathan, when you hear people on the republican side who say, the cbo is not reliable. they were wrong about obama care to begin with. they've been wrong before, what do you say to that? i say two things, first of all, they are wrong. the cbo is incredibly accurate on the number of uninsured. on premiums, about 1% of where the premiums ended up being. they act as though the cbo is wrong, then there's no effect to this law. there's likely to be too low is too high. maybe instead of 22 million it will only be 50 million unin

he voted no. >> bret, john mccain? >> i think he saved the republican party from the biggest mistake they could have made. which is having a bill that would make people lose coverage while doing nothing to deal with entitlements or debt which would have been a twofold disaster for republicans. so five or ten years as people remember john mccain they will remember this, not only as an act of courage and of putting country before party but remembered as an act of saving a party from its own worst instincts. >> he'll be around to remind us too. that's more likely than not. robert traynham, talk about the republican party's massive failure, not just as bret suggests to craft truly conservative. they're trying to deal with health care without applying the conservative principles. and every effort they made to take away obamacare only made an unpopular plan more popular. >> yeah. they were their own worst enemy in this case. you don't put vice president pence on the senate floor -- first of all, you don't schedule the vote u

john mccain at the top of the list. he and i have been friends for a very long time, ever since the gang of eight, which we put together. and i have not seen a senator who speaks truth to power as strongly as well and as frequently as john mccain. the very same courage he showed as a naval aviator in vietnam he showed last night. and has shown time and time again. he's just a wonderful man. i treasure his friendship and just the fact of knowing him. i've known a few great men in the senate i put ted kennedy in that category and danny inouye and john mccain in the category too. not to be forgotten of equal praise are susan collins and lisa murkowski. they were amazing. and women are in so many instances stronger than men. th brag less about it but they are. and last night sort of proved that. and as somebody who is in a family of strong women, i very much appreciate their strength and their courage and dedication to principle despite the treaties. where do we go from here? john mccain said it all on tuesday night, i hope

i'd put ted kennedy in that category and i put john mccain in that category, too.tainly not to be forgotten, of equal praise are susan collins and lisa murkowski, they were amazing. women are in so many instances stronger than men. they brag less about it, but they are. last night sort of proved that. somebody who is in a family of strong women, i very much appreciate their strength, their courage and their dedication to principle, despite. where do we go from here? john mccain said it all on tuesday night. i hope this is a turning point, his speech. when he returned to the senate and his vote last night and his actions in the last few days. do i hear an echo? you know, on health, we have to shut that off, whatever its doing. what is it? okay. thank you. on health care, i hope we can work together to make the system better in a bipartisan way. i'm optimistic that can happen. i think, at the very beginning, we should stabilize the system. we should make permanent the cost sharing, which keeps people's premiums down and the counties that are covered up. we should loo

the former commitment from michigan, my friend john mccain sob. gged old ess and meghan mccain had a statement that she had on twitter saying it won't surprise you to learn that in all of this the one of us who was most confident and calm is my father. he is the toughest person i know. the aggressions of political life could not bend him. he is meeting this challenge as he has every other cancer may afflict him but it will not make him surrender. nothing ever has. the daughter of john mccain with her statement on twitter. let's go to martha in huntington, indiana. republican. senator john mccain will not be returning to the senate for a while while he undergoes this cancer treatment, complicating the efforts out here for what the president and the leader of the senate are doing should be either repeal and replace or repeal now, replace later. what do you think about straight repeal? caller: i think they should just straight repeal it and just take the time getting the new one done. i think they didn't take enough time on the other one. let's get it

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is john mccain. he's going to cast the votes he's going to cast and there's very little that his colleagues or anyone else can do to pressure him. lisa murkowski showed a lot of backbone on this too. he was getting a lot of pressure. he said maybe the hardest part was letting down her fellow republicans with whom she still agrees that obamacare has massive problems that need to be fixed or repealed still. >> thanks. kristen welker over at the white house. i want to catch up with you because the president is clearly really upset about this. where do we go from here? >> reporter: it's not clear. the president is infuriated. that's the one thing we know. just moments ago we're getting some new tweets from the president himself calling for e effectively a change in senate rules. the first tweet is if republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the senate, they must immediately go to a 51 vote majority not senseless 60. even though parts of the health care could pass at 51, some really good

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"profile in courage" for john mccain. and that's the way it always is in the senate on close votes. that senator who casts that last vote that decides the issue gets the glory just as the player who scored the winning touchdown gets the glory no matter how much touchdowns were scored before that. john mccain's vote would have been meaningless if republican senators susan collins and lisa murkowski were not consistently strong and unwavering in their opposition to the republican legislation. twitter caught up with that fact quickly, and the profiles in courage were extended to include susan collins and lisa murkowski. but many, many more people showed more courage in the resistance to the republican plans to take health coverage away from millions of people. the senators who voted against the mcconnell plan were simply doing their jobs, voting against something they believed would be bad for their states and bad for the country. but is that -- that is the way they should have voted. they know that. but how would they have

it was senator john mccain. it was hours of behind-the-scenes al qaedaing. mitch mcconnell, vice president mike pence, and at one moment, even the president putting a call in to senator mccain trying to sway his vote. guys, it didn't work. becoming the third republican to vote no, essentially sinking the repeal effort entirely. again, we've talked about this throughout the last couple of weeks, how the process has gone forward. kind of slimming down bill after bill after bill, trying to get a bare-bones option just to send over to the house to have a conference committee. in the end, that ended up not being enough. take a listen to what the leaders in the senate of both parties had to say after the vote -- >> i imagine many of our colleagues on the other side are celebrating -- probably pretty happy about all this. our friends on the other side decided early on they didn't want to engage with us in a serious way, in a serious way, to help those suffering under obamacare. >> it's time to turn the page. i would say to my dear friend, the majority leader, we are

john mccain returning to cast his vote health care bill.ng in former advisor to president george w. bush rightfully claimed. ann rabin by rail. good morning to you. brad, and are they going to have the votes? >> estimate they will. but john mccain coming back, wait until you see the reception he gets from his colleagues. if john mccain can do the right thing with illness that hangs over him, shame on on any republican who goes south on this procedural vote. this is not substance, just moving the bill forward for debate. republicans are going to veteran john mccain will get great reception. cheryl: the president said yesterday republicans failed to vote. that just as they are fine with obamacare. i could be very bad in the mid-term. >> yeah, absolutely. they've got to deliver something. i just hope that it's not just a repeal or any replacement. the cbo showed up last week at 33 million americans would lose coverage. you can't convince me when two thirds of the recipients of the affordable care act, otherwise known as obamacare were actually

but not for john mccain.here were already prorepublican senator two republican senators, lisa murkowski and susan colins who said they would vote against the skinny repeal, then john mccain walked on the floor, put his arm out, put a thumbs down, and that was the dramatic signal. you could hear gasps in the gallery when he did that that this thing was tanked now, as we discussed earlier in the hour, this process has derailed a couple of times before, and come back to life. it feels as if this was the last time in this congress and the people need to prepare themselves for the idea that it's not going to come back. in fact, many republicans have indicated, mitch mcconnell himself indicated if the process crashed, they would then initiate discussions with democrats on ways to sure up the exchanges in the marketplaces and fix them to provide some certainty. because a lot of people are concerned about whether they'll be able to sign up because of lack of insurers competing in marketplaces that's where it appears

>> john mccain obviously a giant in washington, d.c. but he's been a giant in american life for a very long time and he served his entire adult life for the united states people in vietnam and being a prisoner of war, someone who was allowed by the north vietnamese to leave because his father was a powerful add mir in the u.s. navy but john mccain refused and said he wasn't going to go until all of his men came home with him. he did come home physically broken but mentally and spiritually tougher then ever. he was a fighter his entire life, a fighter when he was with the rag va-- reagan administration. i'm not so sure that the most important work he's done hasn't been over the last six months when he's been fighting to uphold the basic tenets of u.s. democracy, championing checks and balances and making sure senators were reminded every day who our friend were and who our enemies were. when i went to talk to him in february, he showed me pictures of dissidents who were assassinated by vladimir putin. he is a voice that we desperately ne

we've all covered john mccain for years. his president's race, races, and him in the senate, but just to kind of give you a sense of how he is revered in a bipartisan way. i talked to a democratic senator, ended up telling him the news. this is a democrat. a very port san democrat. broke down in his -- crying. crying hysterically. not just because he loves john mccain the man, but because of what you said. because this is a guy who has such leadership on both sides of the aisle, and he's one of the few people around who can still get people to stop and listen and put down their partisan -- >> yes, and sneak in this point, the generational difference, philosophical difference, john mccain from a past era of politics, not too far in the rearview mirror but we forget in the days of the blogosphere and hard partisanship in the media. president obama tweeting john mccain a hero, one of the bravest. cancer doesn't know what its up against. give it hell, john. 2008 opponents. and in that campaign, the first african-american leading